A new book titled “Lords or Servants,” by oil and gas businessman and lay minister Jim Reeves has been published by NewBookPublishing.com, which argues that the corporate structure prevalent in the modern-day church is in fact killing the church.

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Reeves argues that the "Jesus model" is leadership through service rather than authority, and that grasping this key concept will solve most of the problems facing the modern church. The author demonstrates that leadership, like respect, cannot be granted by appointment; it must be earned by a life of service to others.

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Reeves examines the difference between what was required of leaders in the first-century church and those of today, and shows that the church is the body of Christ, a living body, and not a corporate entity or an organization.

The Malawi Synods of Nkhoma and Livingstonia of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), represent churches of different people groups and political leanings in Malawi, and for more than ten years the ongoing migration of these people groups within the others’ traditional territory has led to conflict between the two synods as the synods have investigated establishing churches in what was formerly the exclusive territory of the other synod.

After several years of meetings and committee work, the 2007 CCAP General Assembly (GA), which additionally includes the Harare Synod and Zambia Synods from Zimbabwe and Zambia respectively, and the Synod of Blantyre in southern Malawi, established borders between the synods.

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Since the 2007 CCAP GA, the Livingstonia Synod has begun developing churches within what has traditionally been the borders of the Nkhoma Synod in central Malawi, so the Nkhoma Synod proposed that there should be no borders between any of the four CCAP synods, and the Nkhoma Synod additionally attached a number of proposed regulations about how ministers and elders were ordained and how ministers and elders could transfer from one synod to another. As a result, the Livingstonia Synod has requested a postponement of the General Assembly previously scheduled for December 2009 in light of what they called the "new option" from Nkhoma Synod.

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The Nkhoma Synod has observed their own sense of shame that the dispute between the two Malawian synods has brought on the "prophetic voice of the Church Universal to the world in general and to the Malawi nation in particular."

Galloway defines one manifestation of poverty as being “the lack of time spent with friends, family, and others you could be with,” and concludes: “It’s time to be with those we care about and reclaim the Sabbath for what it is.”

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In a reminder of Olympics runner Eric Liddell’s refusal to run in the 100 meter race scheduled on a Sunday in 1924, in December 2009, Scots rugby player Euan Murray announced that he would not play in the Sunday, 7 February 2010, Six Nations match against France nor in any subsequent rugby matches scheduled on Sundays because of Murray’s religious view of the Sabbath.

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The answer to Question Sixty of the Westminster Shorter Catechism is: “The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days[Leviticus 23:3, Exodus 16:25-29, Jeremiah 17:21-22]; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship [Psalm 92:1-2, Luke 4:16, Isaiah 58:13, Acts 20:7], except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy [Matthew 12:11-12].”

"The ACDP is very disappointed by the President's marriage to [a] 5th wife, particularly because this act is against Biblical teaching and also against [the] government's AIDS Programme that encourages peoples to sleep with only one partner. We believe [the president] has set a bad example for men in the country who might want to emulate what the Head of State is doing.

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While polygamy has been practiced widely in African culture for centuries, it is now [no] longer relevant in democratic societies…. Polygamy promotes manipulation, jealousy, strife, and unhealthy competition among wives to attract the attention of their husband. It causes unhappiness among some because of neglect and unmet needs….

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We question why some who claim to believe in democratic rights to equality can at the same time talk about the right of a man to marry more than one wife, while they will not agree when a woman wants to marry more than one husband. This, we believe, is nothing but an attempt to legitimize the lust of men.

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The ACDP calls on men throughout the country not to follow the President's bad example and choose to remain faithful and committed to one wife.”

Paisley additionally is disturbed that Mrs. Robinson lectured against homosexuality for religious reasons while simultaneously carrying on adulterous affairs including one with the nineteen year old son of a deceased man - with whom Mrs. Robinson had previously carried on an adulterous affair - and for whom Mrs. Robinson secured UK£50,000 from other businessmen. Mrs. Robinson additionally carried on an adulterous affair in the 1980’s with a fellow DUP member.

On 5 January 2010, SPC received a temporary restraining order against the EP, forbidding any efforts to take control of church funds, property, and related matters. SPC holds the church deed in the name of the church and in 1983 disavowed any trust interest in the church property.

The Slavic Reformation Society (SRS), which exists to plant Reformed churches and to train pastors to serve Christ in the former Soviet Union, has scheduled two weeks of intensive classes for pastors to be held 1-14 March 2010 in the Biblical Theological Seminary in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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SRS needs to raise US$10,000 by 1 February 2010 in order to commit to holding the St. Petersburg classes. Donations can be made to the address listed below.